Fashionista

Sarah is my younger sister, she finds great things before I know about them. She works in the fashion industry (aka Gap) so she knows about trends before they have hit the general market. Since High School I have been about 6 months after Sarah in the fashion world. We were joking the other day about how she finds the trends, I copy them. I also get hand-me-ups occasionally from Sarah. When she is tired of her cloths she typically retires them to me. Hand-me-ups are my favorite...Sarah I haven't gotten any since Joe entered the picture. What is the deal?

Sarah recently told me about hobo international wallets. She has two, I borrowed one and fell in love. I recently ordered this wine colored one for myself. I can't say enough good things about it. This wallet is perfect in a purse and perfect outside a purse as a stand alone clutch. My sister had designer jeans a long time before I did. Her favorite brand is Seven for All Mankind which means that my favorite brand is Seven for All Mankind. A couple of months ago she recommended a new brand. It took me a few months, but I finally gave them a try, and of course I love them. She recommended Gap jeans. Gap recently changed their denim. It is a higher quality denim comparable to the denim used for Sevens. These jeans are awesome. I have the sexy boot cut and the always skinny. They fit like a glove and they hold their shape. Best of all they are the perfect length for ballet flats.


I can't wait to hear about the next best thing from Sarah...

Gingerbread

I can't wait for the holidays. I thought I would get in the holiday spirit, so I put together a gingerbread house this week. I think it is the best gingerbread house that I have ever decorated. The kit just cost $10 at Costco and it came with the grooved tray to build it on. It was pretty much fool proof.

Tim Tam Slam

Tim Tams are a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's Biscuits, Australia. A Tim Tam is composed of two layers of chocolate malted biscuit, separated by a light chocolate cream filling, and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. According to Arnott's, around 35 million packs are sold each year – nearly 400 million biscuits, an average of approximately 1.7 packs per Australian.


So now that you know what a Tim Tam is, you are probably wondering how one "slams" a Tim Tam. Well you get a cup of hot chocolate, bite off both ends of the cookie, place it in the hot chocolate and suck the hot chocolate until the Tim Tam goes soft and you have to slurp it up into your mouth before it falls into the hot chocolate.

I attended my first Tim Tam Slam last week. My flatmate Emily was the reigning Tim Tam Slam champ. She ate over 26 cookies a the slam last year. Jon was the runner up. Here they are with their game faces on. Sure Emily doesn't look like she can eat a lot but this girl can pack it away when she needs to. She is a pie eating champ in addition to being a Tim Tam champ. I think we may start training for Coney Island's Hot Dog contest.


The rules of the slam changed this year. Everyone had 30 minutes after they put their first dipped their first Tim Tam in the hot chocolate to eat as many Tim Tams as they could. Emily was crowned the Tim Tam champ for the second year in the row. She ate 22 cookies in total. Jon tied for 2nd with Camille, who literally lost her cookies. I calculated the calories that were consumed. There are 190 calories in 2 cookies. That means that Emily pounded 2090 calories in one sitting. I believe that at least 2 packages are produced for Emily each year. Way to go Emily. Better luck next year Jon!